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{SPEAKER name="LILLIAN HELLMAN"}
-- it would've come back for those wonderful 2 or 3 free years of very good living and very good support.

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{SPEAKER name="MERLYE SECREST"}
Yeah. I think, Miss Hellman, the conflict that I'm talking about is a very practical one. You know, I have a very good friend who said that what she really needed was a good wife. This is what a lot of women who are trying to do it all really need.

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{SPEAKER name="EMILY HAHN"}
I've often said it.

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{SPEAKER name="MERLYE SECREST"}
Have you? There you are, there's another one. But you've got something you wanted to read on this subject.

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{SPEAKER name="EMILY HAHN"}
Well, not much. Let's see --

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I remember an argument, well, no, earlier than that -- A life like mother's, anybody's mother, wholesome and safe though it was cracked up to be, ceased to appeal.

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And this might be because we had the vote, and I think not. I don't know. It might've been in the air.

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If it comes to that, was there ever a time in history when the normal young American woman yearned to be wholesome and safe?

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I don't think so. Perhaps it's a question of age, perhaps of training - I only know my own generation.

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For all I know, the average fledgling female wants a home of her own and nothing better. But I don't think so.

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I've met a whole lot of young wives and mothers who wanted something else. I think it's the human condition.

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And we went out and got it. -- That's it. Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="MERYLE SECREST"}
Right. Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="BERENICE ABBOTT"}
It shouldn't be a problem.

{SPEAKER name="EMILY HAHN"}
I don't think it is a problem.

{SPEAKER name="LILLIAN HELLMAN"}
I don't think you can divide it neatly --

{SPEAKER name="EMILY HAHN"}
No.

{SPEAKER name="LILLIAN HELLMAN"}
-- course you can have --

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{SPEAKER name="LILLIAN HELLMAN"}
-- you can really have both, it seems to me. Unless the man says you cannot have both, in which case I would think you would pass up the man.

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[[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="EMILY HAHN"}
Yes, indeed.

{SPEAKER name="BERENICE ABBOTT"}
Of course.

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{SPEAKER name="LILLIAN HELLMAN"}
Then I don't see the troubles involved in it. Except, as I said before, for the first four or five years of not leaving little children when they shouldn't be left.

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Then you do give up those four or five years, I guess, but in a lifetime that isn't a great deal to give up. And one can return to --

{SPEAKER name="BERENICE ABBOTT"}
[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="MERYLE SECREST"}
Yeah, except if you have three in a row, it becomes more than four or five years, so-- I did. Too many.

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{SPEAKER name="LILLIAN HELLMAN"}
Don't you find an increasingly -- I find increasingly, perhaps you don't, that --